Eight problems with Common Core Standards

“The Core” is what everybody should be required to know in education.  Corporate interests, arguing that the core was being taught sloppily, came up with a behind the scenes campaign called the Common Core State Standards. Common Core was named this to hide the fact it was driven by people in Washington D.C.  Little public dialog or feedback was gathered from educators about common core, and no research, no pilot or experimental programs were executed.  The world changes every day, so we should not cling to a static strategy.  The main reason for poor student performance is being ignored due to all the attention being showered on the Common Core Standards.  Innovation is killed due to Common Core.  With Common Core everything is based on get ready for national standardized tests, tests that can’t avoid cultural bias, that can’t evaluate complex thought and can’t measure non-verbal learning.